History of Odessa

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Odessa, Ukraine.

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13th to 17th century
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  • 1240 - Tatars begin settling herds in the region.
  • 1415 - a settlement of Kachibei (Khadjibey, Hacıbey, Kotsiubiyiv) was first mentioned.[1][2][3]
  • 15th century - Khadjibey ceded to Lithuania.
  • 1529 - Ottoman conquest.

18th century
  • 1764 - Fortress Yeni Dünya built at Khadjibey by Turks.[4][5]
  • 1789 - Russian forces take fortress.[5]
  • 1791 - Khadjibey annexed to Novorossiya.[5]
  • 1794 - Odessa founded by decree of Catherine II of Russia.
  • 1795
    • Population: 2,250.[4]
    • Cathedral of the Transfiguration founded.[6]

19th century
  • 1802 - Population: 9,000.[7]
  • 1803 - Duc de Richelieu in power.
  • 1804 - Commercial school founded.[7]
  • 1805
    • Odessa becomes administrative center of New Russia.[7]
    • Theatre opens.[7]
    • Russian Orthodox church built.[8]
  • 1808 - Troitzkaya Church active.[6]
  • 1809
    • Cathedral built.[4]
    • Opera house built.[8]
  • 1812 - Plague.[7]
  • 1814 - Population: 25,000.[4]
  • 1816 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron in power.
  • 1817 - Richelieu Lyceum established.[8]
  • 1819 - Odessa becomes a free port.[9]
  • 1821
    • Church of the Dormition built.
    • Pogrom against Jews.
  • 1824 - Odessa becomes "seat of the governors-general of Novorossia and Bessarabia."[4]
  • 1825 - Archeological Museum founded.
  • 1826
    • Fyodor Palen in power.
    • Jewish school established.[8]
    • Richelieu Monument unveiled.
  • 1828 - Imperial Rural Association for Southern Russia founded.[10]
  • 1830
  • 1838 - Plague.[12]
  • 1841 - Giant Staircase constructed.
  • 1846 - Londonskaya Hotel opens.
  • 1847 - Novobazarnaya Church built.[6]
  • 1850 - Population: 100,000.[4]
  • 1853
  • 1854 - Anglo-French fleet attacks Odessa.
  • 1856 - Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company established.
  • 1857 - August 15: Free port status revoked.[9]
  • 1859 - Pogrom against Jews.
  • 1862
  • 1865 - Imperial Novorossiya University established.[4]
  • 1866 - Odessa-Balta railway begins operating.[4]
  • 1871
    • Pogrom against Jews.[8]
    • Russian Technical Society, Odessa branch, founded.
  • 1873 - Population: 162,814.[13]
  • 1874 - Theatre Velikanova built.
  • 1875 - Tzar visits Odessa.[6]
  • 1876 - Turkish forces attack Odessa.[4]
  • 1880 - Horse tramway begins operating.
  • 1881
    • Steam tramway begins operating.
    • Pogrom against Jews.
  • 1882 - Population: 217,000.[14]
  • 1887 - Theatre built.[15]
  • 1894 - Odessa Committee of the Social Democratic Workers Party organized.[16]
  • 1895 - St. Panteleimon church consecrated.
  • 1897 - Lutheran Church built.[6]
  • 1899
  • 1900 - Population: 449,673.[4]

20th century

21st century

See also

References
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  2. "Історія Одеси". web.archive.org. 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
  3. State Institute of History of Ukraine. "Одеса". Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine (in Ukraininan). Retrieved 2020-04-09.
  4. Britannica 1910.
  5. Murray 1868.
  6. Baedeker 1914.
  7. Meakin 1906.
  8. Zipperstein 1982.
  9. Herlihy 1973.
  10. Department of Agrigulture Ministry of Crown Domains for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago (1893), The Industries of Russia: Agriculture and Forestry, 3, St. Petersburg
  11. "Leading Libraries of the World: Russia and Finland". American Library Annual. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1916. pp. 477–478.
  12. Koch 1855.
  13. "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1880. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590436.
  14. "Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590469.
  15. "Aged Beauty Gets a Face Lift From a Geologist". New York Times. November 1, 1999.
  16. "Odessa". Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Archived from the original on October 2014.
  17. http://www.odessapage.com/new/en/node/807
  18. "Russia: Principal Towns: European Russia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440.
  19. Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. p. 523+. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
  20. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
  21. "New York Times". 1 April 2013.
  22. Henry W. Morton and Robert C. Stuart, ed. (1984). The Contemporary Soviet City. New York: M.E. Sharpe. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-87332-248-5.
  23. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
  24. Thea Derks (1998). "Odessa". Tempo. New Series, No. 206.
  25. "Odessa Mayor". Odessa City Council. Archived from the original on August 14, 2009.
  26. "Odessa Mayor". Odessa City Council. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011.
  27. "Ukraine Crisis: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  28. "Будівництво бази Військово-морських Сил України в Одесі". Український мілітарний портал (in Russian). 2017-03-19. Retrieved 2020-04-09.

Bibliography
See also: Odessa § Further reading
Published before 1950
Published since 1950
  • Dzhumyga, Ievgen.Dzhumyga, Ievgen. "The Home Front In Odessa During The Great War (July 1914–February 1917): The Gender Aspect Of The Problem." Danubius 31 (2013):pp 223+ online
  • Patricia Herlihy (1973). "Odessa: Staple Trade and Urbanization in New Russia". Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. Neue Folge, Bd. 21.
  • Steve J. Zipperstein (1982). "Jewish Enlightenment in Odessa: Cultural Characteristics, 1794-1871". Jewish Social Studies. 44 (1): 19–36. JSTOR 4467153.
  • Herlihy, Patricia. "The ethnic composition of the city of Odessa in the nineteenth century." Harvard Ukrainian Studies 1.1 (1977): 53–78.

Images
  • Map of Odessa region, 1809
  • Odessa, 1830s
  • Odessa, 1850s
  • Port Practique, Odessa, ca.1890s
  • Unveiling of Catherine II monument, 1900
  • Odessa, 1917
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